The original Etrian Odyssey came out of absolutely nowhere back in 2007 and instantly polarized gamers. You either got it and loved it, or you were baffled at how such a backward creation could possibly have made it to market in this modern era and hated it with the fury of a thousand angry suns.
Back in 2007, Atlus decided to use the Nintendo DS to do something ambitious. It brought back the days of first-person RPGs with original party members you had to customize and dungeons you needed to map. Thanks to the handheld's design, the bottom screen allowed people to practice cartography as they played. Since then, 10 games have been released, each bringing something new to adventurers.
Atlus will re-release the first three titles in the Etrian Odyssey role-playing dungeon crawler series on the Nintendo DS, according to an ad posted on the NeoGAF forums.
Forum user Dwayne received the email ad from Canadian retailer Video Games Plus. Buyers will be able to pre-order Etrian Odyssey, Etrian Odyssey 2: Heroes of Lagaard and Etrian Odyssey 3: The Drowned City for $29.99 each or create a custom Etrian Oydssey DS Trilogy pre-order bundle. Those who pre-order the bundle will receive all three games at a $15 discount.
Stoked for this! I don't have the second or third games, so I plan to get those!
Demon’s Souls may have been Atlus USA’s top selling title, but 3D Dot Game Heroes sales pixel exploded way past the publisher’s projections. Atlus USA estimated 25,000 units. 3D Dot Game Heroes actually sold 160,000 units, greater than six times expectations.
But, I fear Atlus has been weak with localizations lately, despite all the money they've got thanks to From titles.
On a side note, since Atlus has been doing so well with From Software titles, perhaps this means they'll localize Armored Core 5 themselves?
Because oh god, I hope somebody picks it up after it releases in Japan.
3D Dot Game Heroes is a fun 8,5/10 game.
It was also somewhat needed for the PS3 as it stands out from the crowd of other great games in terms of gameplay and style.
Demon's Souls looks very awesome! But haven't bought it yet.
It sounds very hard to play and like it takes much time.
I hope they both sell even better.
This news made mt day:D
This game is so underrated, probably my greatest next gen experience after guns of the patriots. It really aggrevates me how people write this off as a zelda clone yet happily accept one shooter after another.
I mean if they like the 2d zeldas enouch to consider this a clone then shouldnt they be happy to geet more games that plays like that?
Armored core is also a underrated game, thought it looked like crap but then i borrowed a friends copy and found out what a thrilling game it really is, really gets the adrenaline pumpig.
Havent tried deamons souls but i highly suspects im not up to the task.
Great news for Atlus. They've been my favourite publisher for the past few years. It's great to see them succeed.
I've platinumed Demon Souls and will soon platinum 3D Dot.
(Thank you new patch)
From makes such great unique games. I will continue to support them.
I wish more people knew how good 3D Dot Game Heroes is, I really need to finish it.
I went down to buy it on day 1, biggest gaming store in my town got 2 copies in and 0 pre-orders... the. hell.
Apparently there's a princess in need of saving but I couldn't find her...
(And yeah, pretty sure I gt that figured out, so no help from the peanut gallery, thank you very much...:p)
@Zatrox: where the heck is AC5? been at least two years since anyone talked about it.
It's From, so it doesn't really surprises me there hasn't been much talk about AC5 nor hype, aside from a trailer or two. After all, that's normal for them.
It'll probably release this year (Although I doubt it) or next year in Japan.
God knows when we'll get it here in America.
Demon's souls was great, but I can't platinum the game because of the GODDAMN PURE BLADESTONE.
3D dot game heroes is also fun, although I am currently only on the desert temple. The graphics are pretty cool though.
gonna wait for a used version for 20$ somewhere for any of these games
I know I'm a cheapass lol...
I'm gonna use the $20 I'm getting from Amazon for pre-ordering Blank Ops to buy 3D Dot...will end up costing me only $10. Heck yes.
